A BOOK-LOVER S HOLIDAYS 



In Eastern Canada, as in the Eastern United 

 States, there has been far less chance than in 

 the West to create huge governmental game re 

 serves. But there has been a positive increase of 

 the big game during the last two or three decades. 

 This is partly due to the creation and enforce 

 ment of wise game laws although here also 

 it must be admitted that in some of the Prov 

 inces, as in some of the States, the alien sports 

 man is judged with Rhadamanthine severity, 

 while the home offenders, and even the home In 

 dians, are but little interfered with. It would be 

 well if in this matter other communities copied 

 the excellent example of Maine and New Bruns 

 wick. In addition to the game laws, a large 

 part is played in Canadian game preservation 

 by the hunting and fishing clubs. These clubs 

 have policed, and now police many thousands 

 of square miles of wooded wilderness, worth 

 less for agriculture; and in consequence of this 

 policing the wild creatures of the wilderness 

 have thriven, and in some cases have multi 

 plied to an extraordinary degree, on these club 

 lands. 



In September, 1915, I visited the Tourilli 

 Club, as the guest of an old friend, Doctor 

 Alexander Lambert, a companion of previous 

 hunting trips in the Louisiana cane-brakes, in 



